Taste the Secret

Track Listings

1. Opening Act

2. Turn It Up

3. Meatshake

4. Dumb It Down

5. Abigail Silk

6. Energy Drink

7. Drive-Thru

8. Mr. Tough Guy

9. Pass It On

10. Revolucion

11. Potty Mouth

12. Daisy

13. Confrontation

14. Rio de Janeiro

15. I Wanna Go Home

16. Goodnight Now

17. Something's Going Down Tonight [*] - Grand Puba, Ugly Duckling

18. Turn It Up [Refried][*]

Taste the Secret,Ugly Duckling,Emperor Norton (Ryk),Alternative Rap,Comedy Rap,Hip-Hop,Jazz-Rap,Pop,Rap,Rap & Hip-Hop,United States of America

Taste the Secret

Tracks:

Opening Act
Turn It Up
Meatshake
Dumb It Down
Abigail Silk
Energy Drink
The Drive-Thru
Mr. Tough Guy
Pass It On
La Revolucion
Potty-Mouth
Daisy
The Confrontation
Rio De Janeiro
I Wanna Go Home
Goodnight Now

Customer Reviews:

Genius.......2006-01-07

So who here is tired of the gangster garbage rap has succumb to these days? yeah thats pretty much everyone. So has ugly duckling, so they released an album to completely overthrow that. They managed to make an amazing album entirely without cursing or any guest appearances. This album is just a funny, chilled out album. For those not feeling the G-rated style this album contains then i think your crazy becuase i find it hillarious. "Dumb It Down" is the key song in this album as it pokes fun at the whole "its cool to dumb" thing the majority of the youth hip hop world has become nowadays. They do it with funny, clever rhymes from Andy and Dizzy and really the best beats Young Einstein has put together to date. "Meat Shake" is another great song that parodies major fast food companies going overboard with the amount of beef put on menus these days. "Rio De Janiero" is one of the best laced hip hop - jazz beats ive ever heard all about that feeling everyone has to just get away. But enough about the songs, the point is that theres nothing new about Ugly Duckling except that this album is their best to date and i reccomend it really to anyone.

Smart rap for the No Logo crowd.......2005-09-30

Great beats, solid anti-consumerist message, and, for a wonder, funny skits. The smarts come through all the way from the songs to the packaging. I picked this up on spec because I liked the cover. Definitely counts as a find.

another underated masterpiece.......2005-09-17

more like 4 and a half but this is a great great album einstiens production is some of the best very old school and very detailed and layered you can tell that this is a man that puts his heart and soul into his music and that is definitely a good thing dizzy and andy are very underated lyricsts and it doesnt really show on this album maybe more on journey to anywhere but never the less they are great the skits are hilarious and those of you who chose to give this a one star review i dont know what your smokin but this is by far a better album than journey to anywhere. Dont get me wrong Journey was good but this is better

The Pinnacle of Creativity .......2004-12-19

What is hip-hop? Is hip-hop about sharp rhymes and catchy hooks? "Off the chain" beats and brilliant production? Maybe one's definition of hip-hop is some super sick one-hundred bar verse. However, for myself, hip-hop is more than that. Hip-hop is a culture that has been exploited by mainstream America. That's why Ugly Ducklings' Taste the Secret is not on your typical "hip-hop's most wanted" list.

Taste the Secret is off the meat rack (no pun intended). Sure, this is no Long Live the Kane or Critical Beatdown, but for this album to be released in 2003, you can't help by feel Taste the Secret has taken you on a trip back to the Golden Ages of hip-hop. This album doesn't have any one single outstanding track. It's more like one big track into an entire album. From beginning to end, you really don't notice the transition from one track to another. It's a joyride true hip-hop fans will cherish in an era where true hip-hop isn't abundant.

I'm not a huge fan of Ugly Ducklings' other works, but Taste the Secret was something I found one of the best releases of 2003 (a fairly good year for hip-hop music). This album did big things for the underground community. Not an undisputed classic, but I'd reward 4.5 stars. You're not going to discover verses that'll make you sick to your stomach (in a good way), but you'll find yourself wishing the Golden Age of hip-hop still existed. Taste the Secret was like a brief ray of sunshine in a day and age where hip-hop is for the most part is overcast.

Not their best, but...........2004-11-16

In the annals of hip hop, plenty of different movements have come and gone. The message folks were replaced by the gangstas. The gangstas were replaced by the rappers who just want to have fun. The funsters were replaced by the deep thinkers, and the deep thinkers were replaced by the gangstas. Through it all, most of the movements have stayed around, they've merely moved out of the mainstream. Well, the fun rappers are alive in the underground, and, along with a handful of others (Pigeon John, LA Symphony, Dirtburg, etc.) Ugly Duckling is headlining the movement, even if they're not headlining the tours.

With Fresh Mode and Journey to Anywhere, Dizzy Dustin, Andy Cooper and Young Einstein showed us that they were students of old school hip hop. Throwing rhymes back and forth, finishing each other's sentences, upbeat rhymes about goin' out on Friday Night, scratchin' the dickens out of old vinyl, etc. were (and still are) a breath of fresh air. Taste the Secret takes the same style, and mixes it up with a quirky theme that provides one of the most disgusting (but funny) hip hop songs I've ever heard (MeatShake). There are some extremely high quality tracks on this album, my favorite of which is Turn It Up, a call to...well...turn it up. Opening Act is a fun track that explains UD's position in the hierarchy of touring hip-hop. Potty Mouth is an entertaining track that exposes the use of curse words as a crutch/marketing gimmick. The cd as a whole is pretty good, but these three tracks stand out in my mind. The picture is this, Taste the Secret is a step back for the group, but considering that they were already about 4 steps ahead of most hip-hop, so it's not a huge deal.

Average customer rating:

Machines move me

Live From Northpark Mall
The Aleph
Manufacturer: Artificial Music Machine
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music
ASIN: B00008XYO6
Release Date: 2003-03-24

Tracks:

Nude Dreamers
Memory Is Not Serving Here
Twilight Speeds
Conversing Eye Movements
Lazarus
Cut Deeper
Drowning Victims
Burned To Breathe
2 min 12 sec at the mall
Reinterpretation (m1d1)

Album Description

Hailed by some as "the next Portishead", The Aleph have created a soundtrack to your secret life - their highly anticipated debut album, Live From Northpark Mall, is a delicately destructive combination of angelic vocals, glitchy beats, and samples taken from modern life; a subliminal electonic pop album of form, function, and fashion.

Customer Reviews:

Machines move me.......2003-06-14

Here is music given unto us from a group of young artists tapping fingering and fondling the revolutionary organism of our age- the computer- as instrument as melody machine as surreal music box-output-input-a wire- like a digital hookah filled with tripping ram and rom conjuring up fuzzy wuzzy sounds and venus induced images all cut up and spliced up and melting like modern modern art-like watching two Sorayama sexy bots in synthetic erotic poses licking each others bits and bytes in a dressing room at the mall-clothes on the floor-price tags, metal tongues and fingers on throats - and the Aleph over the store speakers moving the consumers.